Jewellery and Metal MA

Royal College of Art

Develop your creativity through critical and interdisciplinary making. Develop your creative jewellery and metal practice within the material- and research-led processes of Applied Art. Advance your creativity and critical thinking with a wide range of insights from arts and design practitioners, theorists and historians. Follow in the footsteps of our RCA jewellery alumni who work internationally in fine art, applied art, design and fashion. Jewellery offers us the opportunity to understand our relationship with the things that surround us. Metal makes up more than 80% of the periodic table, offering limitless potential for innovation in material possibility. Studying this programme, you’ll explore the intersections of the social, technological, art and science. Our MA Jewellery and Metal uniquely provides academic expertise across art, design, and fine art within a world-leading school of the arts, fostering creativity and experimental making. We merge art and design, the material and immaterial, and the digital and analogue. Develop your creative identity This jewellery and metal programme will challenge you to see this discipline from a fresh perspective. You’ll benefit from our research-led approach which blends applied art philosophy and ideas from science. Your learning will be self-directed and self-reflective, critical in nature and thoroughly contextualised in disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge.